BILL ANNOUNCES:Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Tuesday, February 7, 2017. Go ahead Juana, what happened on Tuesday?

JUANA:Can you hear me? I am on the phone from Straydog. This is a phone show. It was a good day and we had a big vet visit scheduled. We started our morning working in kennels and we had a full crew and everybody did a great job. There are several pictures of our crew.

Maci was bringing some doggies back from the park.

​There’s Jacob with the dogs’ food bowls.

There’s a beautiful picture of Lola in the park.

I gave Big Boy a big, fluffy bed and he loves that bed and he won’t get off of it. He’s just so cute. He was in his outside kennel.

We had a big vet visit. Beauty was going to Morton Clinic.

He wasn’t feeling well and he had diarrhea. I was controlling his diarrhea, but then he wouldn’t eat. He wouldn’t eat Monday during the day or Monday night and he still wouldn’t eat on Tuesday morning. I knew that something must be going on, because he wasn’t eating.

We were taking the puppies to the vet for their third puppy shots.

Jackson was going to the vet because half of his face had been swollen for over a month.

Our vet said it must have been an abscessed tooth and they cleaned his teeth. They took x-rays and nothing showed on the x-rays. It seemed to clear up, but not completely, and then it came back again. He had been on antibiotics for a long time. Then he had a huge knot again. It was on his face, below his eye on the left side, near his mouth and we really needed to check this out.

Jazzie was going to the vet.

She had been to the vet several times. She was limping on her front left leg and also from her back left leg. Her ankle or her toes were twisting inward. We had also taken her to the vet for her skin and we knew that she had arthritis in her shoulders. Her knee was good, but something was going on with her and it was getting worse. The last time she was at the vet was about a month ago. So we were taking her back to the vet to take some x-rays.

Our puppies were getting so big. They looked so scared in the waiting room and in the exam room.

Lacie was our vet tech and she did some blood work on Beauty.

We thought Beauty might have pancreatitis and so did Dr. James. They tested him and he tested positive for pancreatitis. He’s in a lot of pain. They were going to flush him and put him on IV antibiotics and we were hoping that he would make it through. It’s not good. At his age, it’s definitely harder. I remember when we lost Sally. She was diagnosed with pancreatitis and she passed away the very next day and she was young. It was crazy! Beauty is a strong dog and he’s a trooper.

There’s Lacie with Jackson. You can see the knot on his face.

There’s Jazzie with Dr. James. He was checking her back leg and front leg and they took some x-rays. You can see the bone on Jazzie’s left leg, below her ankle.

The doctor said that her bone had completely deteriorated from arthritis. He said that she needed a surgery that he had never done. He wanted to refer her to the Dallas Veterinary Surgical Center (DVSC). She had been having this problem for a long time and her arthritis was so bad that we could see it on the x-ray. It hadn’t been that bad before and we couldn’t pinpoint what the problem was. What we planned to do was put her on pain medicine and limit her exercise. She loves to play and chase tennis balls. She never slows down. The doctor said that, if her ankle were to snap, they would have to amputate her left leg. It’s very serious.

Two of the pups were almost ready to be spayed.

We also took Luna, because she’d been having problems with the pads on one of her paws.

She runs and plays and then she limps. We had already put her on antibiotics, limited her exercise and brought her indoors and wrapped her leg. We were doing everything we could to protect her paw. When we wrapped her paw, she chewed on the wrap and it wasn’t healing. If we bring her indoors, she won’t eat at all. She won’t eat anything. She’s terrified. If I put her outside and wrap her foot, then she chews her wrap off and she and her sister Selena play tug-o-war with the bandage. I asked the doctor what I should do. He said that we were doing the right thing and we should put her outside. He said that it would heal eventually. He said, “You’ve tried everything and she won’t eat indoors. Put her outside and let her be.” That’s what we did. It’s now a week later and she’s completely back to normal. It was only a matter of time, as the doctor said.​

There’s a photo of one of the vet techs wrapping her foot.

The doctor said that we should wrap her foot all the way up her leg. It didn’t work. We took her home and Stephanie, our overnight person, called me and told me that Luna and Selena were playing tug-o-war with her wrap. So I called Dr. James and that’s when he told me that there wasn’t anything we could do, except let her be.​

​BILL: That’s it. We’ll be back soon with another report from Straydog.